Wild & Loose

Oaktown's 3-5-7 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008J2U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,392 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. We Like It

2. Say That Then

3. Rock 'N' Soul

4. It's a Shame

5. 3-5-7 Straight at You

6. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

7. Juicy Gotcha Krazy

8. Stupid Def Ya'll

9. I Betcha Wanna Take It

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Props to MC Hammer's dancers and pioneering female MCs, December 1, 2005

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Chad Zurko (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild & Loose (Bonus Dvd) (Audio CD)

Say what you want about this trio of proteges of the once omnipresent MC Hammer, Oaktown's 357 had the potential to be as big as the Hammer man himself with fierce lyrical delivery, hyperkenetic dance moves, flashy videos backed by catchy pop beats (in an interview it was said the group chose "357" as numbers symbolizing strength and power). This album was originally released in 1989, a year before Hammer's own career peaked. Unfortunately by the beginning of the '90s both acts failed to keep up with the changing pop landscape and the advent of "gangsta" rap. The inevitable backlash came against Hammer, Oaktown's 357 and other "cheesy" rap acts. Most female rappers with the exception of Salt N' Pepa were already forgotten by the time 357 (now a duo) released their far inferior sophomore disc "Fully Loaded." And even today with the world wide web there is little information about this enigmatic and short-lived group. Therefore it is great to see this "guilty pleasure" get re-released and remastered WITH an awesome DVD that includes not only all the videos from "Wild and Loose:"

357 Straight At You

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Juicy Gotcha Krazy

We Like It (Get Loose)

...but also the videos from "Fully Loaded:"

Honey

It's Not Your Money

Turn It Up

I had not seen a couple of these ever, and had not seen the others in many years so this was really a treat and reminded me how irresistably watchable the videos were (thanks no doubt to MC Hammer and his handlers). I did have to wince at seeing "Straight at You" again, where "Terrible T" and "Sweet LD" lip-synched the parts of "Little P," who for some reason was gone by the time the video was shot (random trivia: Little P was the keyboard player in Bobby Brown's "My Perogative" video with the high top fade LOL). It's a shame the DVD nor its track listing were even mentioned on the jewel box label; also a shame that I was able to find a "cutout" copy only 5 months after its release. Still, props to Bungalo records for giving it a try and doing a halfway decent job unlike so many re-released, supposedly remastered recordings these days. You can definitely hear the improved sound quality on the one listen I've had so far. My only other complaint is the listed "remix" of Juicy Gotcha Krazy that replaced the original album mix. This remix consists only of the original with an annoying hollow background beat. I was surprised they didn't use the bass-heavy single/video version with B Angie B or another mix I've heard that cleverly combines the album and single mixes. But the DVD more than makes up for that.

I hope this review will provoke others to write in on their likes (or dislikes) of this underrated group and album, and maybe the word can be spread and others will get to hear fun "vintage" rap/hip hop.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where is B Angie B?, June 3, 2005

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Pure-Tay (Chitown, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wild & Loose (Audio CD)

***********BUYER BEWARE************************. If you buy this CD for the song Juicy gotcha crazy Ft. B angie B you will be disappointed. Because she is not on the version that is on this album. And futher more the version on the album has some kind of rock sound with guys singing juicy in the background and the ladies rapping don't even sound like 357. This song and Yeah, Yeah, Yeah were the only reason I bought the CD. Yeah...song is cool it still sounds the same. But this messed up juicy version made me angry. I wish I had knew this before I bought it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars My guilty pleasure!!!!!, January 9, 2006

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J. Arce "PuertoRockreppin" (Westbubblefu*k) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild & Loose (Audio CD)

in answer to Norfeest....Oaktown's 3.5.7 has undergone more musical chairs in their brief 4 year career then Destiny's Child...starting out as a trio in 88 as MC Hammer's back up dancers the 3 original memebers Terrible T.,Sweet LD,and Lil'P.(seen in Hammer's "Pump it up" video),went on to record their debut "Wild & loose" to be released in 89...before the shooting and release of their 1st single "Yeah,yeah,Yeah" Lil'P left the group to get married...Hammer recruits 2 new girls Sweet P.(a former Raider Cheerleader) and VC(Bobby Brown's "My perogitive" video) joining Terrible T & Sweet LD turning 357 into a quartet,and the reason you see 4 women in the video...however the 2 new girls lipsynched Lil'P's voice in the "Yeah..." video...as the story goes VC broke her leg and never returned and Sweet P. left to becaome a temporary member of JJ Fad replacing Sassy C. briefly and changing her name to Classy P....now they are a duo once again...and you see that in their 2nd video "357 straight at u"...well going into 90's Hammer decided release a 3rd single "Juicy gotcha crazy" remixing & rerecording the song and adding the sultry vocals of B.Angie B....Angie was actually never a part of 357 just a guest vocalist...their 4th single "We Like it" was also rerecorded and remixed.

Now onto my review...these ladies remind me of a time when hip hop wasn't so mean and hateful...sure they dissed JJ Fad,S&P,and Shante...but it wasn't anything in the vein of what going on these days...they were not the best MC's, they still were nonetheless entertaining...all the spandex and cheerleader dance moves were cute.